Children’s learning improves across all areas when they get the chance to make and appreciate art. Shutterstock There were three keynote addresses at an education conference I attended recently. Each ...

When the arts are an interdisciplinary partner with other subjects, they generate the conditions that researchers say are ideal for learning. Evidence has mounted over the last decade that arts study ...

Most Americans agree with President Barack Obama’s assessment that a “complete and competitive education for the 21st century” means all students will need some form of education or training beyond ...

When I signed up for Art 100 as a sophomore in 1983, I never dreamed that a year of lecture classes—along with hours poring over endless photographs of artworks mounted on the walls of a study room in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate Cassada shares and makes sense of K-12 education practices. In this discussion, organizations that bring the arts to children ...

Museum educators at the National Museum of Asian Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum have developed programs to equip teachers and students alike with strategies to slow down. This programming ...

A teenager learning arts tech. Source: The Nigmatic/ Unsplash Adolescence is a critical period of development characterized by numerous challenges and transitions. During this time, young individuals ...

Arts education is often an afterthought in schools, but Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, Professor and Chair of the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thinks ...

Channel your studio art ability, knowledge of art history and ability to lead as an educator. Our art education program covers a variety of teaching practices and methods of curriculum development ...

Image: Hirshhorn Lead Education Specialist Tiffany McGettigan with Storytime participants in front of Annette Lemieux’s “Nomad” (1988) in the museum. Photo: Kate Warren. Courtesy of the Hirshhorn ...

Students in the MA and Advanced Certificate programs begin with focused courses in art and design education, as well as examine their learning in their undergraduate degree or studio-core, whether in ...

At Reynoldsburg's Encore Academy, every class can become an art class. Instead of producing book reports or PowerPoint presentations, students often illustrate concepts using supplies provided by a ...